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Summary: BLONDE: JUST ABOUT THE RIGHT COLOR FOR THIS BOOK.
Review: A quick read of the reviews here has me wondering what the other readers were expecting from this book. Bushnell writes (or has been known to write, I guess) for the New York Observer. It'd be a tall order to line up expectations of literary ingenuity or deep mystique about the characters that 4 Blondes is about. Three of the four leads are single, all live in NYC, and all socialize with (or aspire to socialize with) the type of people who read or appear in High Society sections of leading dailies. This is a novel of manners with no manners, pop literature that smartly captures the mores and obsessions of our times and does so with wit, insight and a lot of unshackled talk about sex. We read about enough penises to make Philip Roth blush. It's a snappy, quick breeze through modern urban pop culture. And yes, there ARE people like this in all megapolis urbanscapes of the world, from NYC to Tokyo. And it makes no pretense of being otherwise. Which makes for a fabulous fun if you don't suffer from a Moralizing Itch.
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Summary: NOT A CHICK LIT BOOK!
Review: This is NOT a chick lit book! This is not fun, light, fluffy, or empty. It is about women and their demises and in a few stories, their uprises. This is not the usual fluff that most female writers are pushing down our throats. These characters are not here for you to "like", there is no mindless blab of labels, designers etc, listed off just to show the author has fashion sense. The reason this book was panned by so many is because they thought this was a fun chick lit book. The characters are deep and for each novella inside the book, the writing style changes to depict the personalities of the new character(s). I loved each one. Sure it was disheartening and a little depressing at times, but everyone loves a good drama once in awhile! Surely a welcome break from the Valley Girl meets New York fashion list books with mindless dribble and emotionless fashion columnists running around in Monolos. The mention of Manolos in this book actually had importance to the plot. Loved it! read it twice!
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Summary: Sweet and sexy
Review: Much has been said about Candace 's gift for language. It is not an exaggeration to say that one could literally open this book to any page and find an utterly original turn of phrase, or a combination of words that beg you to stop and ponder. This is a truly cool voice in the literary world. Very simply, and sweet and sexy in the same time this is the best. High literature but also funny, funny stuff. I'm looking forward to more books by this great author.
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Summary: Black Roots
Review: I'm married, do not live anywhere near NYC, watch Sex in the City and was looking for a little tantalizing glimpse into the fabulous single life of Four Blondes. I ran a hot bath, chilled a bottle of wine and settled among the froth and bubbles with Candace Bushnell's nexest book. First mistake. Did not read the Amazon customer reviews. Second: Paid full price for the book. Third: Fell asleep and dropped the $21.00 book in the bath water and had to blow dry the pages to read the last chapter. A waste of trees, bubbles and hot air. The bleak, non-sexy, self-absorbed world Bushnell attempts to glamourize reveals that not only do blondes not have fun, their roots are showing under the bleach. She must know her novel is not amusing, not light and certainly not Sex in the City where at least the chicks have a laugh with their Cosmopolitans. No laughing here. Hard to believe that I was preparing to feel sorry for myself when I started the book and ended up feeling pretty darn lucky to not be beautiful, young, single and blond in NYC. On the other hand, maybe now the general public will understand the difference between Blonde(noun) and blond(adj.) So, hey, there is some redeeming social value. If you want to read about fun steamy sex, dust off an old copy of Valley of the Dolls. Now there is a bathtub read. Candace Bushnell's Four Blondes may do for marital happiness what Fatal Attraction did for fidelity.
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Summary: A little disappointing.....
Review: By the way as a native New Yorker (the greatest city in the world by the way!!!), I know a lot of "smart blondes"..... The characters are well crafted as Candace Bushnell does, it was disappointed in the Janey story, Janey should have got the real estate job and worked her way up to the top seling houses ine which is what i thought was going to happen... all of the sudden she gets a Victorias secret offer and poof! she has her own house in CA... it was good that she bought it on her own and no man bought it for her but would have been better if she worked her way up selling real estate in the Hamptons.....that was a bit disappointing, but maybe that would have been boring
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Summary: bad to worse
Review: I'm a fan of "chick lit", however when I read this book I didn't think it was good at all. The only parts I liked were the smart quotes or one-liners. I could barely even finish the book, It was mildly interesting in the beginning, but then it gets much worse as it progresses.
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Summary: 4 Blondes
Review: Witty and delicious. Never watching an episode of Sex and the City I decided to take an interest and try a book by the author. Definitely entertaining. It gives the reader an inside look of romantic intrigues among the elite. The book is split into four sections each with a different story about a beautiful blonde woman- a model, a columnist, a socialite, and a writer- as they face turning points, each must deicide among her passions. The reader sympathizes with each woman no matter what trouble they enter into.
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Summary: Entertaining!
Review: I thought this book was interesting and very entertaining. I'm not much of a reader, so any book that keeps my attention is worth recommending. The characters are very different from my lifestyle and yet I find I can identify with their underlying problems / feelings. If you like "Sex and the City", you will like this book, no doubt!
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Summary: Not my favorite...
Review: I understand the beauty and appeal of a light and not too serious book - "light reading", if you will. This is the type of book you pick up if you're relaxing at the beach, or going on a bus ride. This book, however, wasn't even a well-written "light" book. The book (as the title implies) deals with the stories of 4 blondes in the style of "Sex and the City" - Prada-carrying, Gucci-wearing, beautiful women. Their stories are pretty much unrelated, although some auxiliary characters pop up in more than one story. However, their recurrent appearances have no significance, making the whole thing rather lame. The first story was pretty good, actually. Well written and easy to read. Then everything went downhill. The second story could have been interesting, but was written terribly - overused parantheses everywhere! The third story was about a neurotic model, and wasn't interesting (or well-written, for that matter). The last story was pretty short and completely underdeveloped. It had potential, but the author never realized it. My suggestion - there are so many light and fluffy books out there, so skip this one. I like "Me times three", for example, and I would recommend that one over "4 blondes".
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Summary: Can you say "dreck"?
Review: I cannot believe how insipid and tasteless this book is. It depicts women as vapid, directionless bimbos who only exist to be seen in the right shoes. I can even decide if the author was maybe lampooning this type of woman, because there was no sense of tongue-in-cheek to this. It was just horrible. If you see this book, run the other way.
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